Elizabeth Felicetti

Feb 16, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Elizabeth Felicetti |Aaron Stauffer |Amy Frykholm |Mary Clark Moschella

To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. The second part of this Sunday’s gospel reading describes the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry proclaiming the good news and calling people to repent. This begins, however, after the arrest of John the Baptist. What kind of crisis must that have caused?

Feb 12, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Elizabeth Felicetti |Debie Thomas |Daniel Schultz |Philip Jenkins

To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. When I’m working on my laptop I usually use a Bible website instead of opening a print Bible, exposing me to newer translations than those I’ve had in my house or office for decades.

Oct 12, 2023 | faithandleadership.com | Elizabeth Felicetti

We have a decent number of children and babies in the small, thriving church where I am the rector, and on a recent Sunday morning, they all showed up at once. As they fanned out in the front of the nave for the children’s sermon, I pantomimed to our children’s minister in the front row to take a photo. We have to be careful about showing kids’ faces in photos online, but the children’s sermon is perfect, because you can take pictures of their adorable backs, and I wanted a photo to show off.

Aug 31, 2023 | eerdword.com | Elizabeth Felicetti

How have women without children made vital contributions to their communities? Drawing inspiration from the life that teems in a “barren” desert, Elizabeth Felicetti reflects on the unexpected abundance in her own life and in the lives of historical women who did not have children. Women without children, by choice or chance, who have felt frustrated or voiceless in the church will find solidarity and inspiration in the pages of Unexpected Abundance.

Aug 25, 2023 | eerdword.com | Elizabeth Felicetti

In many Christian communities today, women are expected to have children—to “be fruitful and multiply.” To be childless is to be less of a woman, less of a Christian, or so it can feel. Elizabeth Felicetti is deeply familiar with this pressure as an Episcopal priest who was unable to have the children she hoped would be part of her life. But if she’s “barren,” so is the desert—and if you look closely, the desert teems with unexpected life.